Lincoln had to decide immediately what to do about the federal fort in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina: Fort Sumter.

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It said the people in those territories had the right to decide for themselves if slavery would be legal or illegal.

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Cass and Douglas supported the idea of letting the people of a territory decide if slavery would be permitted in that territory.

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But in general these schools have greater freedom to decide what to teach and how to teach it.

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In your pain and sadness, you may decide that the person you loved is hard-hearted, and in fact,has a heart of stone.

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Continuing disasters in the Indian Ocean made Indonesia decide it must have a warning system of its own.

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Douglas said the bill would give people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories the right to decide if slavery would be permitted.

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But it was not. It was written in a very general way that left the courts to decide what the law really said.

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The incident was one of many in American history in which a president had to decide if he should interfere in private industry.

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Lawmakers argued: was the peoples' right to decide the issue of slavery restricted only to the territories named in the compromise of eighteen fifty?

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In this scene, their editors are trying to decide if the paper has enough to support a story that the reporters want to print.

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in federal health care programs. Congress will have to decide how to finance the remaining costs.

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President Obama still has to decide the future of a Bush administration plan to put a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic.

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The results decide how many seats each state will have in the House of Representatives.

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